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University of Chicago Law School, Coase Sandor Institute for Law and Economics
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The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, in partnership with the University of Chicago Law School, Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics, hosted an in-person and livestreamed Draft Guidelines workshop on Friday, November 3 at 9:00 am CT. 

The agencies recently released the 2023 Draft Merger Guidelines, and are reviewing comments from the public submitted online during the comment period at www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2023-0043.

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Public Workshop on the DOJ/FTC Draft Merger Guidelines 

  • Agenda

    Friday, November 3

    9:00 am

    Welcome

    Thomas J. Miles, Dean and Clifton R. Musser Professor of Law and Economics, The University of Chicago Law School
    9:05 am

    Opening Remarks

    Susan C. Athey, Chief Economist, U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division
    9:30 am

    Panel 1: Rebuttals

    Moderator: Andrew Forman, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division

    Panelists:
    • David A. Ettinger, Partner, Honigman LLP
    • Diana Moss, Vice President and Director of Competition Policy, Progressive Policy Institute
    • William Rogerson, Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor and Director of The Center for Business Institutions, Northwestern University
    • Margaret Slade, Professor Emeritus, Vancouver School of Economics at The University of British Columbia
    • Jennifer E. Sturiale, Assistant Professor of Law, Widener University Delaware Law School
    10:45 am

    Break
    11:00 am

    Panel 2: Labor Competition

    Moderator: Ioana Marinescu, Principal Economist, U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division

    Panelists:
    • Kyle Herkenhoff, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota
    • Beatriz Marques, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the New York State Attorney General
    • Justin McCrary, Paul J. Evanson Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
    • Eric A. Posner, Kirkland and Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Arthur and Esther Kane Research Chair, The University of Chicago Law School
    • Elena Prager, Assistant Professor, University of Rochester Simon Business School
    12:15pm

    Lunch
    1:30 pm

    Afternoon Remarks

    Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Doha Mekki, U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division
    1:45pm

    Panel 3: Dynamics of Competition

    Moderator: Aviv Nevo, Director of the Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission

    Panelists:
    • Rebecca Haw Allensworth, Associate Dean for Research and David Daniels Allen Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Law School
    • Gwendolyn J. Lindsay Cooley, Assistant Attorney General and NAAG Antitrust Task Force Chair, Wisconsin Department of Justice
    • Joseph Farrell, Professor of the Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley
    • Chad Syverson, George C. Tiao Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
    • Thomas Wollman, Associate Professor of Economics and William Ladany Faculty Scholar, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
    3:00 pm

    Break
    3:15 pm

    Closing Remarks

    Aviv Nevo, Director of the Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission

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